They Call Me Tator Tot Casserole
Here’s another tater tot casserole that turned out pretty good. You could twist it to your taste if ya want. I was going use Scorched in the queso but when you get my age you’ll find you don’t always remember that part. I often wonder how many time the Classic Tater Tot Casserole got tricked out after Jim Bob Duggar bragged about it on national TV.
Servings 4
Calories 1070kcal
Ingredients
- 32 oz Tater Tots®
- 8 oz Velveeta®
- 4 oz milk
- 10 oz bacon (=’s 5 slices no flavors)
- 2 oz tomato (diced)
- 2 oz poblano pepper (diced)
- 8 oz sour cream
- 4 oz Cluck (leftover works great for potato chips)
- 1 tsp chives
- 1 tsp butter
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- We’re building this a little bassackwards for smooth cooking (less clean-up)
- Get the oven up to 450
- Cover top of cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
- Dump tots on foil, spread even, and sprinkle salt to taste.
- Clean and cut poblano in half long ways. Hopefully you have enough room to fit 1 half with tots skin up.
- Place loaded cookie sheet in oven for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.
- Pull from oven and set tots in butter rubbed Pyrex® small one 7x11
- Is the pepper done? If so put it on cutting board. If not it will need to cook longer with bacon. The skin should come fairly easy and it’s limp when cooked.
- Turn oven down to 350, lay strips of bacon on cookie sheet, and place in oven.
- Depending on your bacon thickness bake for 45 minutes. I start checking at 30 minutes and it almost always takes 40 minutes.
- Keep oven on we’ll be right bav=ck.
- Cube the Velveeta and mix with milk in a microwavable bowl.
- Microwave cheese for 60 seconds. Stir cook at 30 second intervals until smooth.
- Skin, de-seed, and dice poblano. Tomato too if it’s not already.
- Mix the sour cream and Cluck up.
- Once bacon is cool to touch chop it up.
- Sprinkle half the bacon on tots.
- Pour queso over tots. The queso should be thinner than normal. If not add a shot of milk.
- Place pyrex in oven uncovered for 30 minutes or until top is browning.
- Pull from oven and sprinkle rest of bacon.
- Git ya a plate full, chunk some poblano, and tomato.
- Plop some Cluck dip on top and lastly a small sprinkle of chives on the white.
- You’ll be sitting’ horizontal soon 😉
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➕ Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
They Call Me Tator Tot Casserole
Amount Per Serving (355 g)
Calories 1070
Calories from Fat 603
% Daily Value*
Fat 67g103%
Saturated Fat 24g150%
Cholesterol 105mg35%
Sodium 2552mg111%
Potassium 1679mg48%
Carbohydrates 80g27%
Fiber 11g46%
Sugar 9g10%
Protein 41g82%
Vitamin A 1185IU24%
Vitamin C 30.9mg37%
Calcium 453mg45%
Iron 3.4mg19%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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